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Theater and Performance

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Shipping Out

Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea

By Anita Gonzalez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, American Studies, Class Studies

How race, performance, and labor interconnect on Caribbean cruise ships through the lens of a destination lecturer

Transformismo

Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

By M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

How drag performance transforms the social landscape of Cuba and illuminates the island’s racial, sexual, and economic inequalities

Readying the Revolution

African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement

By Jonathan Shandell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A critical history of Black culture post-World War II that helped cultivate the spirit of Black revolutionary theater

The Revolution Will Be Improvised

The Intimacy of Cultural Activism

By Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance

An examination of revolutionary intimacy-making, experimental performance, and art activism during the civil rights movement

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama

By Jon D. Rossini
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Diaspora Studies, American Studies

Explores drama’s powerful capacity to model nuanced political action

Incarceration Games

A History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance

By Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Psychology, American Studies

Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment and other psychological experiments as performance and theater

Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way

Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance

By Monique Mojica & Brenda Farnell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Native American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies

Racing the Great White Way

Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

By Katie N. Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage

Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers

Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre

By Catherine Davy
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies

Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

By James F. Wilson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages

The Taylor Mac Book

Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance

By David Roman & Sean Edgecomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Music, Popular Music
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Brings together the voices of scholars, critics, and artists to celebrate the genius of Taylor Mac

In the Lurch

Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation

By Ryan Claycomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies

A spirited examination of the changing cultural climate for a once-lauded theatrical form

Staged Readings

Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75

By Michael D'Alessandro
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies

How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America

Made-Up Asians

Yellowface During the Exclusion Era

By Esther Kim Lee
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Why and how Asian characters have been represented by non-Asian actors on stage and screen

Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances

By Jill C. Stevenson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Religion, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

How Christian depictions of the End allow spectators to experience—and feel—their place within the future history of humankind

Democracy Moving

Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past

By Ariel Nereson
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation

Being Human during COVID

By Kristin Ann Hass
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Women's Studies

What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19

Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Theater and Performance

By Nicole Hodges Persley
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies, Music

Explores expressions of Blackness in Hip-Hop performance by non-African American artists

Moving Islands

Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific

By Diana Looser
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Art, Dance
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance

Working Backstage

A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor

By Christin Essin
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Class Studies, American Studies

Places backstage workers in the spotlight to acknowledge their essential roles in creating Broadway magic

Queer Nightlife

By Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, American Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark

Translocas

The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

By Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Argues for the political potential of drag and trans performance in Puerto Rico and its diaspora

In Concert

Performing Musical Persona

By Philip Auslander
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, American Studies, Media Studies

Examining how performers engage and delight their audience through persona, appearance, and spectacle

Singing Out

GALA Choruses and Social Change

By Heather MacLachlan
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Examines whether LGBT choruses can change the hearts and minds of their audiences

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